Firefighters put at risk by members of the public while fighting a blaze in Hereford

12:07pm Tuesday 16th October 2012 in Local News By Lydia Johnson

A LEADING fire officer has spoken of the ‘devastating consequences’ that could have occurred after members of the public twice disconnected a hose from a hydrant as emergency teams fought a blaze in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service said a hydrant was disconnected on two occasions by members of the public as fire fighters battled to put out a fire that left a first floor flat above shops in Church Street, Hereford, gutted.

West Mercia Police are investigating the incident as obstructing firefighters is an offence.

Comments(7)

allhandstothedeck says...
1:30pm Tue 16 Oct 12

Why would anyone do that.

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billyb83 says...
8:22am Wed 17 Oct 12

Why does anyone do anything stupid, its herefords finest drunken idiots put them in a line a put the hose onto them see if that makes them see sense.

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littlewhitebull says...
11:44am Wed 17 Oct 12

This is absolutely mindless behaviour. How can anybody think that interfering with a firefighting operation is in any way funny. Our firefighters are wonderful and have a dangerous and difficult job to perform.
I hope the perpetrators are caught and punished to the full extent of the law.

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Lukio says...
4:18pm Thu 18 Oct 12

I say give firefighters the right to administer 'street punishment' to a**holes that do things like this. They are doing a dangerous job and should in no way be hindered in it. I mean, what the hell were the people doing this thinking? We live in a society of total idiots sometimes.

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Lord Smythe says...
6:26pm Fri 19 Oct 12

The only time I think I would even consider doing something that stupid is if I had started the fire and it had not destroyed the thing i was trying to hide. Just a thought.

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bobby47 says...
1:57pm Sun 21 Oct 12

Lord Smythe has raised an issue here that is often muttered but rarely spoken about in an open manner. 'How to burn down your house without the firebrigade arriving promptly to extinguishing it'.
Sometime ago I was having this very discussion with several colleagues at the source of Yazor Brooke. We are an association, that studies the mating habits of the Natterjack Toad. We are Toad Sexer's. It's a practice banned in much of the United States but, thankfully remains legal here in Hereford.
Anyway, after a confrontation with a particularly aggressive territorial male Toad, I suddenly decided to leave and burn down my house. It was an impulse as much as anything.
En route home I quickly acquired fifty bales of hay, two hundred gallons of petrol and a clipper lighter.
Upon arrival at my house, that I intended to burn down, I began frantically to transfer my illicit cargo into the dwelling when, my Neighbourhood Watch Coordinator (aka Curtain Twitcher) poked her bloody nose into my deranged scheme and said, 'Are you going to burn down your house?', to which I replied, 'Not now'.
There was a point to this tale but I've forgotten what it was, other than to say, dont burn down your house.

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Clarkester says...
9:00am Mon 22 Oct 12

I couldn't have put it better myself, Bobby47...
Pesky Neighbourhood Watch, always messing with a man's plans...
That said, I agree with Billyb83, Littlewhitebull and Lukio, they are total idiots who deserve some pain! But would probably cry and say that the mean old fire & rescue bods were right mean bullies... Bless...

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